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ABSTRACT: A comparative study to assess the quality of life among elderly who live in old age home and those who stay with family at home in selected area Bhopal. 60 elderly individuals 30 elderly at old age home and 30 elderly who live with family were included in the study and in this study convenient technique was used. The tool bused for data collection had 2 section. Section A - socio demographic variable to collect the characteristics of the sample. section- B geriatric QOL scale 2 statement to assess the QOL among elderly people. Result show the comparison of QOL score between old age home and home elderly people which reveals that there is highly significant difference in score of QOL between elderly at old age home when compared to elderly who stay with family at home . The mean QOL score of elderly at old age home was 43.67 with SD =8.71 whereas elderly stay with family at home was 81.63 with SD = 1.84, which clearly reveal that the QOL was higher among elderly people living at home with family. The present study compares the QOL among elderly people who live at old age home and who stay with family at home. The results revealed that76.66 % of old age home elderly people had average QOL, 23.33% of subject had good QOL. Were as 6.66% of home elderly had good QOL ,93.33% of subject had very good QOL